“There is a sad irony that the same people who demand restrictive voter ID and registration laws to prevent fraud they cannot find would hire a man known to engage in questionable voter registration practices and then fall silent when he is suspected of repeating those unacceptable practices,” said Rep. Charles Gonzales in a statement.
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Rep. Lamar Smith’s bill to increase the number of visas for American-educated immigrants with graduate degrees in the science, technology, engineering and medicine fields came under fire by Texas Democrats and failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to pass.
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Romney’s speech came on the same day that the liberal publication Mother Jones released audio recordings of the GOP candidate’s comments at closed-door events. At one event, Romney was heard discussing his father’s birth in Mexico. George Romney was born to an American family living in a Mormon colony in Mexico.

“Had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot at winning this,” Mitt Romney said, referring to his chances of winning the presidential election.

“Listen, we did a market survey and some polling out there and we have found out that there is a niche market for a silver edition of the Chippendale dancers,” he said last night after being inducted into Reyes of Comedy Hall of Fame.
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Actress Eva Longoria used no stage props Thursday when she told Democrats in a somber speech that like the president, she and her South Texas family relied on school loans and hard work to get ahead. “In my family there was one cardinal priority – education,” Longoria told the Democratic National Convention. “College was not […]
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The lineup of Texans scheduled to speak this week at the 2012 Democratic National Convention consists of party backers from a variety of backgrounds including a governor’s daughter, a mayor, a congressman, a state representative and one desperate housewife.
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